Find the Page You Are Looking For
We recently redesigned the PCRM website, so it is possible you followed a link that doesn't work.
Please use the search function to find what you are looking for. All site content has been preserved.
Or browse through the main site categories listed to the left.
The following search results from our site may contain the page you are looking for or similar content.
Milk Consumption and Prostate Cancer
Milk Consumption and Prostate Cancer Abstract Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, with an estimated 400,000 new cases diagnosed annually. Its incidence and mortality have been associated with milk or dairy product consumption in intern |
Doctors Group Files Suit against Kraft, General Mills, Dannon, and Dairy Trade Groups for False Dairy Weight-Loss Claims
WASHINGTON—The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) announced today that it has filed two major lawsuits to stop a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign claiming that milk facilitates weight loss. PCRM charges that three main dairy industry trade groups—the International Dairy Foods |
Weight Control and Obesity Prevention in Children
Weight Control and Obesity Prevention in Children People who maintain a healthy weight throughout life stay healthier and live longer than those who are overweight. The lifestyle habits that help keep us slim—exercise and a healthy diet—also cut our risk of d |
The Good, the Bad, and Jenny Craig: PCRM Weighs Diet Programs
PCRM contacted ten weight management and lifestyle improvement programs to determine the availability of cholesterol-free, healthful menus or foods. We graded programs according to whether they promote low-fat, plant-based foods, which research has shown to be the most effective approach to obesity |
New Scientific Review Shows Dairy Products Do Not Help Weight Loss
WASHINGTON—A new scientific review in May’s peer-reviewed journal Nutrition Reviews shows that people who consume dairy products are likely to gain weight or show no effect in terms of body weight or body fat. Two large observational studies led by Harvard researchers, one including 12,829 adolescents a |
Myths and Presumptions about Obesity Abound
False and scientifically unsound beliefs about obesity persist in both the media and scientific literature, according to an article published in January’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Using the Internet to explore misconceptions about obesity, the authors investigated several commonly held belief |
Atkins Diet Alert
In the 1980s and 1990s, the United States witnessed unprecedented increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found a 61 percent jump in obesity cases during this period, along with a 49 percent rise in the number of diabetes cases. Based on the sales |
Meat Consumption and Cancer Risk
The World Health Organization has determined that dietary factors account for at least 30 percent of all cancers in Western countries and up to 20 percent in developing countries. When cancer researchers started to search for links between diet and cancer, one of the |
Data Do Not Support Recommending Dairy Products for Weight Loss
This letter to the editor was published in the January 2005 issue of Obesity Research. Care should be taken when interpreting the findings from any single small clinical trial, including the report by Zemel et al.1 The study reported on weight lost over 24 weeks by 32 obese individuals |
New Study Compares Four Popular Diets
Tomorrow’s Journal of the American Medical Association reports the results of a head-to-head comparison of four popular diets: Atkins, Ornish, Weight Watchers, and the Zone. Tufts University researchers randomly assigned 160 people to the four diets, gave |
Frequently Asked Questions About Nutrition
Frequently Asked Questions About Nutrition 1. Do you recommend a vegetarian or a vegan diet? 2. I want to try a vegan diet. How should I start? 3. Is it healthy for children to be on a vegan diet? 4. How do I get protein on a vegan diet? Do I need to combine proteins? 5. How do I get enough calcium on a vegan diet |
New Scientific Review Shows Milk Does Not Aid in Weight Loss
Milk-mustache ads featuring top celebrities claiming that milk helps them stay slim are ubiquitous in U.S. magazines, despite an ongoing controversy over the campaign’s scientific validity. But a comprehensive new review paper published this month in Nutrition Reviews shows just how little science is behind t |
The Latest in ...
RESEARCH ETHICS By Kristie Sullivan, M.P.H., and John J. Pippin, M.D. ALTERNATIVES TO ANIMAL RESEARCH Chimp Genome Project Shows Tiny Difference Makes All the Difference Employing the results of the recently completed Chimp Genome Sequencing Project, researchers a |
USDA, Dairy Industry End Dairy-Weight Loss Advertisements
You’ve seen the advertisements. Trim celebrities like Elizabeth Hurley and Beyoncé tell you that eating three servings of dairy a day will help you lose weight. Thousands of Americans were duped into thinking that dairy product consumption is associated with weight loss because of this slick advertisi |
Physicians Urge Elizabeth Hurley to Disavow False Dairy Diet Claims
WASHINGTON—In a letter sent today to Elizabeth Hurley, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) called on the British actress and model to stop participating in an advertising campaign that falsely implies that consuming dairy product |
|
